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Spotify Web Player Hotkeys

by Alexandre Macabies

v1.4.3 Updated Jan 12, 2025 26.3KiB
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★ 4.60
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Description

Adds the following default keyboard shortcuts to open.spotify.com: Play/Pause media key: play, pause – opens a Spotify tab Spotify if necessary! Previous media key: previous track Next media key: next track There is no default shortcut, but you can also bind keys for: Navigating to the home page or the search page – opens a Spotify tab if necessary! Toggle shuffle Toggle repeat (single song, whole playlist, disabled) Toggle song like (since 2024, requires focusing the browser tab) Toggle showing the queue sidebar Toggle showing "now playing" sidebar Toggle showing lyrics Increase, decrease & mute volume Seek backward & forward in both songs (±5 seconds) and podcasts (±15 seconds) You can customize these shortcuts and make them global hotkeys (not just while Chrome is in focus) by opening chrome://extensions/shortcuts. Warning: Chrome/Chromium is known to not correctly register hotkeys after you've changed them in chrome://extensions/shortcuts. Please restart your browser by visiting chrome://restart after changes to shortcuts/hotkeys if you experience issues. This extension relies on the HTML/CSS structure of the website. Spotify might break it by changing their frontend. Please report issues by clicking on the Support link. WHAT'S NEW? * Version 1.4.3: Fix seek step being too coarse. * Version 1.4.2: Fix volume slider not working. * Version 1.4.1: Fix seeking. * Version 1.4.0: Fix un-liking songs. Add new shortcuts for opening home page, opening search page, showing lyrics, showing "now playing". * Version 1.3.1: Add new shortcut that either opens Spotify or cycles through home, search and queue pages. Add "interaction required" warning dialog. * Version 1.2.1: Fix volume slider not working. * Version 1.2.0: Make seek shortcuts work for songs as well as podcasts * Version 1.1.0: Add shortcuts for volume up / down / mute. * Version 1.0.0: Migrate to Manifest V3 so the extension remains functional after 2022. Add a workaround for the "Spotify Lyrics" third-party extension. * Version 0.6.2: Fix many broken buttons caused by a revamp of the toolbar design. * Version 0.6.1: Fix broken "like". * Version 0.6.0: Add short on-click animation; add Podcast seek shortcuts; fix broken "repeat" button. * Version 0.5.1: Add translations. * Version 0.5.0: Fix broken "repeat". * Version 0.4.0: Fix broken "next", "like", "repeat" and "shuffle". * Version 0.3.0: Fix broken "play/pause" and "next".
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Reviews (6 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2023-05-22
Trendonor

ITS NOT WORKING. I AM UNABLE TO OPEN THE EDIT MENU.

★★☆☆☆2024-01-18
Jen Androes

5 stars for intended purpose, it works great for setting up Spotify Hotkeys. However 1 or 2 stars if you use bluetooth devices with Chrome. It affects all websites and media controls outside of Spotify, somehow capturing and disabling bluetooth control functions from headphones and earbuds so when you tap an earbud to play/pause nothing happens. I rely heavily on bluetooth throughout the day but when this extension is enabled I can't control audio or video from ANY website (Youtube, podcasts, movies etc). Took me awhile to find the culprit, tested with numerous headphones and buds, different browsers, all kinds of geeky settings in Chrome and finally realized it was my new Spotify extension. All is working well now that I disabled it.

★★☆☆☆2023-12-13
Anthony Ferguson

Only works while clicked in browser not while in apps or applications other than chrome I don't get the point if one has to go back to chrome to use the shortcuts?

★★☆☆☆2022-01-13
Andrejs Sautins

Doesn't work correctly with the current version of Spotify Web Player. When enabled the extension works fine for a while, but after a few songs the player stops reacting to the hotkeys and the extension has to be manually disabled and reenabled to work again.

★★★☆☆2023-06-16
venkat gaddam

I Have added this extension to opera browser so i opened my spotify on the sidebar (in opera) and i have set up shortcuts (going to 'opera://extensions/shortcuts') and its not working ;( 😓😭

★★★☆☆2023-01-19
Basil Fletcher (Electric Journey)

I can't figure out how to work it :(

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scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 1.4.3
Updated Jan 12, 2025
Size 26.3KiB
First Seen Mar 30, 2026